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Consequences of Right Hemisphere Lesions on Bodily Awareness and Control

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This chapter provides an outline of several clinical conditions concerning abnormal awareness, control, or emotional reactions relative to the patient’s own body. Although links with the attention systems are less clear than for the disorders treated in the following chapters, all of these conditions are relatively specific to patients with right hemisphere damage.

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    Paolo Bartolomeo MD, PhD

  2. Department of Psychology, Catholic University, Milan, Italy

    Paolo Bartolomeo MD, PhD

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Bartolomeo, P. (2014). Consequences of Right Hemisphere Lesions on Bodily Awareness and Control. In: Attention Disorders After Right Brain Damage. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5649-9_3

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